Orbinia ...

• Main Author: Blake, James A.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Annelida; Polychaeta; Orbiniidae; Orbinia; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; Antarctic Peninsula; South Shetland Islands; Pacific; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4901803; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.4901803

Orbinia sp. Phylo kupfferi: Hartman 1966: 107 –108 (in part). Not Ehlers, 1874. Material examined. Antarctic Peninsula South Shetland Islands, Eltanin Sta. 6-437, 267– 311 m (1, LACM-AHF Poly 4994). Description. A single specimen included among USNS Eltanin collections from Eltanin Station 437 and identified by Dr. Olga Hartman, as Phylo kupfferi is here referred to the genus Orbinia because posterior thoracic modified notosetae are not present. Other specimens in the same sample are referred to Phylo felix (see below). Specimen mostly complete, 0.8 mm wide across anterior thoracic region, 7 mm long for 35 setigerous segments. Color light tan in alcohol with no pigmentation. Anterior end of body swollen through setiger 5. Thoracic region with 12 setigers; no posterior modified thoracic segments. Prostomium short, triangular, pointed on anterior margin; nuchal organs not observed. Peristomium short and narrow. Branchiae from setiger 6. Pygidium unknown. Thoracic notopodia short with inconspicuous cirriform ... : Published as part of Blake, James A., 2017, Polychaeta Orbiniidae from Antarctica, the Southern Ocean, the Abyssal Pacific Ocean, and off South America, pp. 1-145 in Zootaxa 4218 (1) on page 89, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.245827 ...